There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able vicariously to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat what's more with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

Of course to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery above weakness above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education and then if you want to pursue acting go to graduate school.

I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

In the book I define conservatism as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution respect for life less government and personal responsibility.